David K. Stone: John Macready

Artist: David K. Stone
1922 - 2001
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1979
Image Size: 20.5 by 17.75 inches
Overall Size: 25.625 by 22.625 inches
Medium: Oil on Masonite

In 1917, at the age of thirty, John Macready earned his pilot's wings. Soon after, he became flight instructor at the Army Pilot School where he wrote The All Thru System of Flying as Taught at Brooks Field, which soon became the basic manual for student pilots. Eventually Macready had the opportunity to test his own flying tips as the Chief Army Test Pilot. Time after time he pushed the LePere biplane, made by General Electric, to higher elevations. He soared 40,800 feet in the open cockpit, surviving temperatures as low as -80 degrees Farenheit while breathing oxygen through a welder's mask. In 1923, experienced and confident, Macready and his partner, Oakley Kelly, began experimenting with the Army's Fokker T-2. The two men soon set a new endurance flying record in the Fokker monoplane, remaining airborne for just over thirty-six hours. That was only the beginning. Just two weeks later, they shocked the entire world by successfully completing the first coast-to-coast non-stop flight from New York to San Diego. The 2,500-mile trip took them only twenty-six hours and fifty minutes, and the Fokker T-2 became aviation's star. This painting features Macready and the Fokker T-2.

This painting originally appeared on the Fleetwood® John A. Macready Commemorative Cover postmarked October 14, 1979. 3261

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